With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet,… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: January 2010
Friday Five: Favorite Places in Maui
Black Rock, Ka’anapali Front Street, Lahaina Whaler’s Village, Ka’anapali Valley Isle Resort, Kahana Paia
Adventures with Microsoft Support
My XBox 360 broke near the end of December. I was playing EA Sports NCAA Football 10 at around 3 o’clock in the morning — with the Gators leading 45 – 10 against an unbeaten #2 TCU late in the 3rd quarter of the 2014 BCS Championship Game — when the screen suddenly went black…. Read more »
You Could NOT Care Less
I can’t stand when people say, “I could care less.” “I could care less,” is one of those little things that drives me absolutely batshit crazy. If you could care less, it means you care. That’s not what you mean when you say that, is it? What you mean is that you don’t care. Someone… Read more »
Spenser: For Hire
“Sometimes I get distracted by food; but mostly all I think about is women and baseball.” – Robert B. Parker’s Spenser My favorite author died on Monday, January 18, and he took with him my favorite fictional character. I was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. My dad, though — who lives in Rhode Island now… Read more »
Goodnight, Coco
“All I ask of you is one thing: Please, do not be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.” — Conan… Read more »
Friday Five: Natural Causes
Five atypical ways to die of “natural” causes: crushed by a falling tree shark attack hit by an asteroid fall from a cliff bee stings
Hunter S. Thompson Quote
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” Twice in the last week I’ve heard references to this Hunter S. Thompson quote on the radio. (Both times an ESPNRadio host was using… Read more »
Friday Five: Favorite Things Containing Tomatoes
my wife’s artichoke, mushroom, asparagus, tomato medley Penne Arrabbiata pizza turkey sandwich California Pizza Kitchen Broccolini and Sun-dried Tomato Fusilli
Dangerous Mistakes
I was blessed — or cursed, I suppose, depending on your point of view — to have my first “real” programming job in the medical field. I wrote software which managed the processing of human tissue (knees, fascia lata, femurs, etc.) for implantation into human patients. I was very young and very stupid at the… Read more »